Crashing trying to launch 22 and 23 (Windows 11)

Zeehk-Zylo wrote on 10/6/2025, 6:04 PM

This is on topic but there was no tag.
I have been using Vegas Pro 21 for a long time and then I upgraded to 22 with no issues but the other day, it just crashed when loading. I restarted my PC and tried many many times and It wouldn't work. I went to reinstall it and I saw there was a Vegas Pro 23 so I uninstalled 22 and installed 23. When I loaded it up, I actually got into the app this time but It crashed shortly after. I have launched many times and it keeps crashing.
Troubleshooting I have tried: cntrl+shift clicking and holding on my app shortcut to reset my settings (it did nothing), and deleting the 23 folders in my Vegas files and letting it regenerate them.

If anyone has experienced this before please let me know and if anyone knows how to solve this. Also, I tried attaching a screenshot of it but the website isn't letting me.

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EricLNZ wrote on 10/6/2025, 6:37 PM

What has recently changed on your pc?

I wonder if this thread has any relevance to your problem? https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/warning-ms-vc-14-50-v145-kill-vegas-permanently--149785/

john_dennis wrote on 10/6/2025, 7:43 PM

@Zeehk-Zylo said: “If anyone has experienced this before please let me know and if anyone knows how to solve this.”
I’ve had things like that happen to me, but I usually don’t spend a lot of time messing with them because I have a working system image (Macrium Reflect).
It likely won’t help you with your current situation, but it’s never too early to start a good backup/restore regime.

Zeehk-Zylo wrote on 10/6/2025, 9:02 PM

What has recently changed on your pc?

I wonder if this thread has any relevance to your problem? https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/warning-ms-vc-14-50-v145-kill-vegas-permanently--149785/

I installed VS2026 recently actually but my Vegas has worked perfectly fine with VS2026 for like 3 days until now. I looked at the post and I did a little research and managed to fix it on my own. What I did was I installed Visual Studio 2022 Build Tools and copied the Redist MSVC files from it and pasted it into my Vegas files.

NickHope wrote on 10/11/2025, 11:46 AM

@Zeehk-Zylo posted the following as a tutorial "How fix Vegas Pro crashing after installing Visual Studio 2026" but I think its better just as a comment here, without a potentially dangerous direct link to vs_BuildTools.exe on aka.ms.

1. Install Visual Studio 2022 Build Tools. You can get it from looking on the page at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ or you can directly download it here: [potentially dangerous link removed]
2. Somewhere during the install you should see it asking you if you want to install extra stuff. It should have placed on the Workloads tab by default with things like "Desktop development with C++" and "WinUI application development tools". Ignore all that stuff and navigate to the Individual components tab and search for "MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools", there should be a lot of them so just pick the one that says "(Latest)". After checking the box, you can click Install.
3. Once you have it installed, if it opened make sure to fully close it out. Head over to Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Redist\MSVC and there should be multiple folders. I have v143 and 14.44.35112. You are going to want to open 14.44.35112 but it might look slightly different if there is another version you downloaded but it should look noticeably similar. Once you've opened it you can go to onecore and then x64 and then you should see two folders: Microsoft.VC143.CRT and Microsoft.VC143.OpenMP.
4. For convenience, make a new folder somewhere that isn't in the files from step 3. Now, go back to the files from step 3 and look in the CRT folder for these specific files: concrt140, msvcp140, msvcp140_1, msvcp140_2, msvcp140_atomic_wait, vcruntime140, vcruntime140_1. They should all be .dll files. Make a copy of those files and place them into that new folder that you created. Now go back to the x64 folder and open the OpenMP folder. Find vcomp140.dll and copy it into the new folder.
5. Close any Vegas instance if you have it open. Head over to Program Files\VEGAS and locate your Vegas version. Drag everything inside of the new folder you created into your selected Vegas version, in my case, Vegas Pro 23. If it askes to replace anything, allow it. Once you've done everything correctly, launch Vegas just as how you normally do.

If something doesn't work, remember you can always reinstall Vegas.